Friday, June 29, 2012

Light

Einstein revolutionized physics with the realization that the speed of light in a vacuum was the ONLY constant available regardless of your frame of reference. Very fundamental.

Then, we go over to the quantum mechanics boys and everything really starts to get weird. Is it made of particles? Is it composed of waves? And the brutally confusing answer: yes.

It should give anyone with the ability to reflect upon reality pause. The fish in the sea is the worst creature to ask about water, since it is all he knows and thus he tunes it out. And here we are in our sea of light. Oblivious.

15 comments:

Humbling it is indeed whether in the Physics sense or in the metaphysical sense. Both streams of enquiry have struggled with this and only the latter seems to have accepted that light too is transitory.

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